Type-setting machine.



- PATENTBD OUT. 27, 1903. G. 'E. KENNEY. TYPEv SETTING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 26, 1903.

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PATENTED- OCT. 27, 1903.

G. E. KEINNBY. TYPE SETTING MACHINE.

APPLICATION. FILED: JAN. 26, 1,903.

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No. 742,671. I Patented October 2'7, 1903.

UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

GEORGE ENOS KENNEY, OF READING, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR TO THE PUL- SOHETER ENGINEERING COMPANY, LIMITED, OE READING, ENGLAND.

TYPE-SETTING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 742,671, dated October 27, 1903. Application filed January 26, 1903. flerial No. 140,586. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, GEORGE ENOS KENNEY, Figure l is a front elevation, Fig. 2 a side elea subject of the King of Great Britain and vation, and Fig. 3 a plan showing part of a 55 Ireland, residing at Reading, in the county type-setting machine of the kind referred to of Berks, England, have invented Improveprovided with type deflecting and stopping ments in Typesetting Machines, of which or buffing devices according to the present the following is a specification. invention. Fig. 4 is a section on the line A In the specification of former Letters Pat- A of Fig. 1.

ent No. 602,327, granted to Stanley H. Hodga represents stationary typetroughs arm kin andPhilip E. Hodgkin, thereisdescribed ranged horizontally side by side and each aconstruction of type-settingmachinewhereprovided at its front end with a. vertical in each type-pusher is arranged to work verpusher b, there being in the example shown tically through an opening in the front end two groups of such troughs arranged at dif- 65 of the corresponding type-trough, the pasferent levels.

I5 sage through which the displaced type falls 0 is .a stationary plate forming a stop aris located in front of a fixed stop terminatranged at the front end of and common to ing in a knife-edge at the top, and there is all the troughs in a group, its upperedge d provided above the said passage a deflecting forming a knife-edge and its front side be- 70 device, the arrangement being such that ing formed with a number of straight inwhen the pusher is raised it will act against clined channels or passages a, corresponding the lower side of the foremost type in the in position to the type-troughs a and through corresponding trough and force the same which the type f are successively discharged. upward above the top edge of the stop, whereg is a cross-piece fixed directly above each 7 5 upon the displaced type will cant backward group of troughs immediately in rear of the either automatically or under the action of foremost'types therein, and h is a glass plate the deflecting device and will fall into the fixed over the type-passages e, all as heretodischarge-passage with its face end upperfore usual. most. Accordingto the present invention for cant- 80 Now the present invention has reference to ing a displaced type f in a backward direcimprovements in type-setting machines of tion there is supported above the dischargethe kind above referred to; and it has for its passages e at the front end of the group of object to simplify and improve the constructype-troughs a or, as in the example, above tion and operation of the deflecting device each group of type-troughs a deflecting de- 85 used for insuring the canting backward of vice k, that is arranged transversely to and 3 5 each displaced type and the falling of such is common to all the type-troughs in the group type through the discharge-passage. and is formed of elastic or yielding material It also has for its object to provide simple that will not injure the face of the type and and efiective means for limiting the upward which is arranged in an inclined plane above 0 movement of the displaced type when the the dischargepassages (2, corresponding to 40 same is raised quickly-as, for example, may the group of troughs, the arrangement being he the case when the type-pushers are opersuch that should a displaced type f not anated by mechanical power-and for afterward tomatically cant backward when raised by its causing the displaced type to fall through pusher 9 its upper end will, as indicated in 5 the corresponding discharge-passage. full lines in Fig. 4, abut against the said de- The invention consists for these purposes flecting device 70, which will be thereby comin an elastic or yielding type-deflecting de pressed and will then react and force the upvice and in an elastic or yielding type stop or per end of the displaced type backward, as louder. indicated in dotted lines, so as to insure the 100 It also consists in various novel features type passing over the knife-edge d, and deof construction and in combinations and arscending the corresponding dischargepasrangements of parts, all as hereinafter desage 6 face uppermost. In the examples scribed, and pointed out in the claims. shown the elastic or yielding deflecting de- For limiting the upward movement of the displaced typef there is supported transversely across and above the front ends of the group of type-troughs a or above each 7 group of type-troughs, as in the example, so

as to be common to the group of troughs, a horizontal or approximately horizontal stop or buffer 0, formed of or comprising elastic or yielding material, such as india-rubber, that will act to limit the ascent of a displaced typef without injuring the face thereof and which after compression by the type will react to cause the type to quickly descend the corresponding discharge-passage e. In the example shown the elastic or yielding stop or buifer 0 consists of a flat band of india-rubber stretched around and carried by a pair of horizontal or approximately horizontal arms 19, carried by the same pair of stationary plates at as are used for supporting the india-rubber band that serves as the deflecting device It.

What I claim is- 1. In a type-setting machine, the combination with a number of type-troughs each provided at its front end with a vertically-movable pusher, a fixed stop arranged abovethe ends of said type-trough, and a type-discharge passage in front of said stop, of a type-deflecting device comprising elastic or yielding material arranged transversely across and common to the type-troughs and dischargepassages and adapted to act against and tilt the upper ends of vertically-displaced types and bring the lower ends thereof over the corresponding discharge-passages.

2. In a type-setting machine, the combination with a number of type-troughs each provided at its front end with a vertically-movable pusher, a fixed stop arranged above the ends of said type-troughs, and a type-discharge. passage in front of said stop, of a typedeflecting device consisting of flexible material stretched transversely across 'and common to said type-troughs and discharge-passages and adapted to tilt the upper ends of vertically-displaced types in a backward direction.

3. In a type-setting machine, the combination with a number of type-troughs each provided at its front end with a vertically-movable pusher, a fixed stop, and a type-discharge passage in front of said stop, of a typedeflecting device comprisinga length of indiarubber supported at each end transversely above and common to said type-troughs and discharge-passages and adapted to tilt the upper ends of vertically-displaced types in a backward direction,

4:. In a type-setting machine, the combination with a number of type-troughs each provided at its front end with a vertically-mow able pusher, a fixed stop,- and a type -discharge passage in front of said stop, of a typedeflecting device consistingof an india-rubber band, and supports fixed at the opposite sides of the type-troughs and around which said band is stretched so as to be supported thereby transversely above the said type-troughs and discharge-passages with its rear portion in the path of vertically-displaced types.

5. In a type-setting machine, the combination with a number of type-troughs each provided at its front end with a vertically-movable pusher, a fixed stop, and a dischargepassage in front of said stop, of a type-defleeting device consisting of an india-rubber band, and supports fixed at the opposite sides of the group of type-troughs and provided with upwardly and backwardly inclined arms around which said band is stretched so as to be supported thereby transversely above the said type-troughs and discharge-passages.

6. In a type-setting machine, the combination witha number of type-troughs each provided at its front end with a vertically-movable pusher, a fixed stop arranged above the ends of said type-troughs, and a type-discharge passage in front of said stop, of an elastic or yielding type stop or bufier arranged transversely above the forward ends of said type-troughs.

7. In a type-setting machine, the combination with a number of type-troughs each provided at its front end with a vertically-movable pusher, a fixed stop, and a type-discharge passage in front of said stop, of a type stop or bufier consisting of flexible material supported at each end and stretched transversely above said type-troughs and adapted to direct a vertically-displaced type abutting against it, downward through the corresponding discharge-passage.

8. In a type-setting machine, the combination with a number of type-troughs each provided at its front end with a vertically-movable pusher, a fixed stop, and atype-discharge passage in front of said stop, of an elastic or yielding type stop or buffer comprising a length of india-rubber supported at each end transversely above and common to the forward ends of all the type-troughs.

9. In a type-setting machine, the combination with a number of type-troughs each provided at its front end with a vertically-movable pusher, a fixed stop, and a type-discharge passage in front of said stop, of an elastic or yielding type stop or buffer consisting of an india-rubber band, and supports fixed at the opposite sides of the type-tr0ughs and around which the same is stretched and supported in a horizontal direction above theforward ends of said type-troughs.

is stretched and by which it is supported IO above the forward ends of said troughs.

Signed at 75, 76 and 77 Oornhill, London,

E. (3., this 5th day of January, 1903.

GEORGE 'ENOS KENNEY.

Witnesses:

WM. 0. BROWN, FRED. 0. SMITH. 

